Maria Stuarda Programme Book 2022

AOIFE O’SULLIVAN
RÉPÉTITEUR
Aoife O’Sullivan was born in Dublin
and studied at the College of Music
with Frank Heneghan and later
at the RIAM with John O’Conor.
She graduated from TCD with
an honours degree in music. In
September 1999 she began her studies as a Fulbright
scholar at the Curtis Institute of Music and in 2001
she joined the staff there for her final two years. She
was awarded the Geoffrey Parsons Trust Award for
accompaniment of singers in 2005. She has worked
on the music staff at Wexford Festival Opera, and
on three Handel operas for Opera Theatre Company
(Orlando, Xerxes, and Alcina), and for Opera Ireland
on Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking and Britten’s A
Midsummer Night’s Dream. She also worked at the
National Opera Studio in London and was on the
deputy coach list for the Jette Parker Young Artist
Programme at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
She has played for masterclasses including those
given by Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray, Thomas
Allen, Thomas Hampson and Anna Moffo. She worked
on Mozart’s Zaide at the Britten Pears Young Artist
Programme and on Britten’s Turn of the Screw for
the Cheltenham Festival with Paul Kildea. She has
appeared at the Wigmore Hall in concerts with Ann
Murray (chamber versions of Mahler and Berg),
Gweneth Ann Jeffers, Wendy Dawn Thompson and
Sinéad Campbell Wallace. She is now based in Dublin
where she works as a répétiteur and vocal coach at
TU Dublin Conservatoire and also regularly for INO.
MOLLY DE BÚRCA
ABL AVIATION OPERA STUDIO
CONDUCTOR
Molly is a recent Bachelor of Music
Education graduate from Trinity
College Dublin and TU Dublin
Conservatoire, where she studied
flute with Ciarán O’Connell. As a
conductor she has worked at home
and abroad, having most recently conducted Trinity
Orchestra on their concert tour to Leuven in Belgium.
In 2017 she was one of 12 participants selected
to take part in the National Concert Hall’s Female
Conductor Programme. This included masterclasses
with Alice Farnham, Sian Edwards, Eimear Noone
and David Brophy, as well as workshops with visiting
conductors including Simon Rattle and Marin Alsop.
She has conducted various ensembles including the
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra as part of the
Female Conductor Programme, Dublin Concert Band,
Julianstown Youth Orchestra, and the Cork Opera
House Concert Orchestra. She was also orchestral
director for Trinity Musical Theatre Society’s
production of Chicago as well as musical director for
their production of Glee the Musical. She is a member
of INO’s ABL Aviation Opera Studio 2021–22.
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